Käthe Kollwitz Lot n° 161

Käthe Kollwitz Group of children Probably 1936/37 Bronze Height 18,6 cm Signed on the right side of the cast plinth 'K. Kollwitz' and on the reverse of the plinth with the foundry stamp "NOACK BERLIN". Posthumous casting, probably from the second half of the 1960s. - With dark brown, partly somewhat lightened patina. - In good condition. Seeler 33; Seeler 33 (Online catalogue raisonné) The bronze will be included in section III.B of the online catalogue raisonné of the artist's work when it is next updated, as far as we know at present. We thank Annette Seeler, Berlin, for her scientific advice. Provenance Willy and Rut Brandt Collection; since then family property, Berlin Exhibitions Including Berlin 1951 (Deutsche Akademie der Künste), Käthe Kollwitz, p. 66, cat. No. 190; Krefeld 1957 (Museum Haus Lange), Käthe Kollwitz. Gedächtnisausstellung zum 90. Geburtstag, o.S., sculpture no. 8; New York 1959/1960 (Galerie St. Etienne), Kaethe Kollwitz. Sculptures and Drawings, cat. No. 6; Berlin 2011 (Käthe Kollwitz Museum), Käthe Kollwitz. Sculptor by Passion. The Sculptural Work, p. 25, ill. p. 76. Literature Among others Gerhard Strauss, Käthe Kollwitz, Dresden 1950, cat. No. 160 with ill. p. 167; Hans Kollwitz (ed.), Käthe Kollwitz. Das plastische Werk, Hamburg 1967, ill. no.; Alexandra von dem Knesebeck, "...mit liebevollen Blicken...". Kinder im Werk von Käthe Kollwitz, Käthe Kollwitz Museum Köln, in: Einblicke 8. Eine Ausstellungsreihe im Rahmen der Dauerausstellung, Cologne 2007, p. 27.